Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2017-100, Ichabod Gifford, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Gifford, Ichabod
BL Mt 2017-100
CONTENTS

Boston, Mass ts
March 21 st 1834.
Sir
Your favour of March 14 th has been received; enclosing Land Warrant No. 2017 for one hundred acres, and issued in the names of the heirs of Ichabod Gifford, who was a soldier in the Massachusetts line of the Revolutionary Army. The receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.
Land Warrant No 2006 for three hundred acres, issued in the names of the heirs of Samuel Shaw Dec d ; who was a Captain in the Massachusetts line; is this day received (V ia Fitchburg, M ty .) The receipt of which is hereby acknowledged.
Very Respectfully Sir I am Your Obedient Servant Reuben Baldwin
Hon Lewis Cass Esqr Secretary of War Land Office

Schabod Gifford's heirs Authentic Certificate of heirship

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth J. Court of Probate at Plymouth in & for said County on the third Monday of February A. D. 1834.
It is more satisfactorily to appear to the said Court that the following persons are the only heirs at law of Ichabod Gifford late of Dartmouth in the County of Bristol who deceased many years since & was a soldier in the War of the Revolution viz: William Gifford and Ruth Gifford the only surviving brother & sister of said Ichabod Gifford deceased both now living at Westport in said County of Bristol, and Sylvia, Patience, Rebecca, Lucena & Squire all children of John Gifford deceased who was a brother of said Ichabod. The five above named all now living in said County of Bristol & Nancy, Alden, John & Nicholas also children of said John who if living are without this Common- wealth. Also Susannah, Lillis, Elizabeth, William, & Abby children of Rebecca Gifford Sowe who was a sister of said Ichabod first above named. all now living in said County of Bristol.
It is further made to appear to said Court that the said Ichabod Gifford first above named died never having been married.
In testimony whereof I Jacob H. Lord

Register of Probate for the County of Plymouth aforesaid have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this seventeenth day of February in the Year of Our Lord one thousand and eight hundred & thirty four.
Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate

Heirship claim in the Right of Schabod Gifford

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
State of Massachusetts Bristol — County. } ss.
I, William Gifford a Brother and one heir at law to Ichabod Gifford deceased, do upon oath testify and declare, that to the best of my knowledge and belief, Ichabod Gifford aforesaid, about, or in the year 1777 entered, or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of "During the War?" and that he continued in the service aforesaid, until the close of the same, when he received an honorable discharge at the termination thereof, from the third Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Graton and when he was a private . — I further declare that my Brother Ichabod Gifford after receiving said discharge departed this life in Dartmouth soon after the termination of the Revolutionary War; and died intestate, leaving no Issue
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to Ichabod Gifford aforesaid, on the part of the United States, nor do I believe he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever:
All Men By these Presents, that I William Gifford aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Stephen Baldwin of Greenville in the State of New York my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the quantity of Bounty Land due me and the other heir at law of Ichabod Gifford aforesaid. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 16 day of September in the year 1833.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in presence of Alonzo B. Gifford
William Gifford mark
Bristol County, ss.
Be it known that on this 16 th day of September in the year 1833 Before the subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared William Gifford subscriber to the above declaration, who made solemn oath to the truth of the same: and likewise acknowledged the power of attorney thereunto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; dated at Westport in said County the day and year above mentioned.
Alonzo B. Gifford Justice of the Peace.
State of Massachusetts Bristol — County. } ss.
I, James Spratt Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, do hereby certify, that Alonzo B. Gifford — before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, and the subjoined power of attorney purports to have been acknowledged, is and was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, in and for the County of Bristol duly commissioned sworn and qualified by law to take affidavits, &c. and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice, and verily believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my name this 20 th day of September in the year 1833.
James Spratt

Deposition of Judith Devol Howland

Schubod Gifford N. 2017.

I Judith Devol Howland - wife of Prince Howland of Westport in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts aged Seventy one years testify and say - That I lived in Dartmouth in the County of Bristol aforesaid - during the war of the revolution. That I was then well acquainted with Ichabod Gifford, who then lived in said Dartmouth that he lived in the same neighbourhood with me at the commencement of the war aforesaid - That sometime in the forepart of the war - I think as near as I can recollect it was in the year seventeen hundred, seventy six - or seventeen hundred seventy seven - he the said Ichabod Gifford enlisted into the war - (or went into the service in the war) (I did not see him enlist) but such was the common say- -ing by his family - I know he went into the service and was in the service by common report during the remainder of the war from the time of his enlistment which was several years - That soon after the close of the war aforesaid, the said Ichabod returned home - he was unwell when he returned home - and in a few months he died, he was about sixteen years old when he entered into the service aforesaid and was unmarried at the time of his death, I further say that at that time I was well acquainted with the family, the Brothers and sisters of said Ichabod - and have been ever since - or such as are now living - William Gifford - and Ruth Gifford are the only survivors, who are now living - and they are the Brother & Sister of the said Ichabod Gifford (deceased) and now live near me - John Gifford who was also a Brother to Ichabod aforesaid - died in Leedsport a short time since leaving ten children - namely - Sylvia, Patience, Rebecca, Deborah, & Susan, who all are now living in the County of Bristol aforesaid - Nancy - who if living is in the State of Connecticut - Alden - who follows the sea - and when at home lives in Boston in said Massachusetts, John - if living is in the State of New York - Nicholas - lives in the State of Rhode Island, and Peace in the State of Maine - Rebecca Gifford Powell, who was sister to said Ichabod - who lives near me - died some years since leaving five children - namely - Susanna, Lillie, Elizabeth, William, and Roby - who are now all living and live near me - and this (as above stated) comprises all the Brothers, and Sisters, with the children of those who have deceased, which were of the family of the aforesaid Ichabod Gifford deceased. - Judith Devol Howland

State of Massachusetts Bristol County S.s. — 3
On this twenty fifth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four — personally appeared before me the subscriber — the within named Judith Dood Hoodland — a person well known to me as a creditable witness — and of good Character — and made Oath that the deposition within mentioned by her subscribed is true in all its parts —
Helen B. Gifford Just. of the Peace